Strawberry shortcake

K's bedroom has strawberry shortcake wall decals so I wanted to embroider one for her. Using a t-shirt I found on clearance at Walmart, it is a very personalized shirt. I printed a coloring page from the Internet, scaled it, and traced it into a tear-away shirt stabilizer. I then hand-wrote her name on a separate sheet of stabilizer and voila!

Hello kitty embroidery

I made this for J and finished in 2 days. She loved it so much, she wore it for 4 days straight.

Here are the steps:

1 - Find a coloring pages off the internet that you would like to embroider and print it:
2 - Trace the chosen coloring page into a tear-away t-shirt stabilizer. This is paper-like and you can use it to trace your design onto. At this point, if the lines on the coloring page are thick, just pick either the outside or the inside line. You can also modify your embroidery by choosing not to trace complicated parts of the coloring page.
3 - lay out your stabilizer with the design onto a t-shirt and use an appropriate size embroidery hoop.
4 - start embroidering! You can have fun with which color floss to use, and even have your child's input at this stage.

If you happen to come upon this page and have questions, just let me know by leaving a comment below.

Embroidered t shirts for Little M

I embroidered a second t shirt for Little M a few days ago since he loves Mater from Disney's Cars. The first was the Jake from Jake and the Neverland pirate on a new shirt. He wouldn't take the shirt off for a couple of days. It has a stain that would not come out as a result.

Mater was done a whim and I just used a orange shirt that his sisters used for a school concert when they were 2.5 years old.

The Jake was my first embroidery an though it turned out well, the lines were wiggly. I just discovered today (by using another stitch) that this is not such a good one to use on long straight lines.

The important thing is that Little M loves his shirts.